Big Creek, Idaho

(for the airport in Valley County, Idaho, see Big Creek Airport (Idaho))

Big Creek is an unincorporated community in Shoshone County, Idaho, United States, outside Kellogg and South of the Shoshone Country Club, where National Forest Develop Road 264 becomes Big Creek Road.

It is home to two large mines: the Crescent and Sunshine mines. The Sunshine mine is one of the largest producers of silver; in its history it produced more silver than the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada.[1]

The community is associated to the ZIP code of Kellogg (83837).

Climate

This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Big Creek has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.[2]

gollark: It's consistently atrociously terrible, yes.
gollark: Having to multiply and divide by a thousand all the time for various units was so mildly annoying when I did chemistry last year.
gollark: A 1g reference would have been small and thus uncool.
gollark: Maybe because the kilogram was based on an actual physical object until recently.
gollark: Double SI prefixes are forbidden by the spec, so it would be Mg.

References
  1. Schwantes, Carlos (1996). The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive history. University of Nebraska Press
  2. Climate Summary for Big Creek, Idaho



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